Melt onto me.
Money, power, glory.
Madhubala’s melancholy:
Pencil, charcoal, oil paints on canvas.
Madhubala, a Bollywood icon, lived a life just as tragic as ‘Anarkali’, a character she played in her last film, the classic - ‘Mughal-e-azam’.
After being diagnosed with a rare heart condition, Madhubala kept fighting for her life and doing justice to her art while sadness colored her life off the screen.
A woman of resolve and uncanny character, she spent the last of her days in loneliness and died at the untimely age of 36 but left behind a timeless remembrance full of art, beauty and strength.
Madhubala when asked about love had once said,"No peace or happiness is possible in life without true love."
Nobody’s gonna love me like I do.
Are you happy?
Stairway to bliss.
The Lover (1992) dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud
A photo print
8”x10”
Photo taken in Delhi
October 2022.
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